Questions and Answers of Computer Communications

=+4. How should an organization respond to the failure of its advocacy activities?
=+3. What ethical breaches might occur in advocating for a policy in a public forum?
=+2. What kinds of activities or events might conflict with the objectives of some types of advocacy organizations?
=+1. Why are strategy and planning important activities for advocacy groups?
=+5. What factors might make one consider that a policy is unsustainable or a failure?
=+4. How might one overcome resistance to evaluations being undertaken?
=+3. What might be appropriate ways to establish the criteria to be used in an evaluation?
=+2. What should evaluators do when they find information that is not supportive of the policy?
=+1. What are the primary differences between policy analysis and policy evaluation?
=+5. Why is it important for analyses to be thorough and use information and data carefully?
=+4. Where can you get assistance when more robust and sophisticated analysis methods are required?
=+3. How do you decide what analysis approaches and methods to use in a policy analysis?
=+2. How much evidence is necessary in a policy analysis?
=+1. Who is the audience when you produce a policy analysis?
=+5. Do simpler policy-making arrangements in smaller states necessarily produce poorer policy?
=+4. Is it undesirable for security, economic, or cultural factors to affect policies? Why or why not?
=+How can those limitations be overcome?
=+a small range of elites? explain.
=+3. Why do public consultations sometimes produce few new ideas or involve
=+2. Why does the appearance of new technologies so often require the development of new policy?
=+1. Why might one want to compare policy-making processes among different countries?
=+5. Why do regional intergovernmental organizations cooperate with similar organizations from other regions?
=+4. Is it feasible for regional governance to establish and implement policy at odds with global governance?
=+3. Why do so many regional governance organizations follow the approaches and frameworks of global governance?
=+2. Why do so many regional intergovernmental organizations form and break apart after a few years?
=+1. What benefits are obtained by creating regional and sub-regional governance organizations?
=+5. What advantages do technologically advantaged states have in governance activities?
=+4. Why do some observers and states believe that private international governance is less democratic than that in intergovernmental organizations?
=+amended, and the state does not agree with the amendments?
=+3. What happens when a state has agreed to a treaty that is subsequently
=+2. If a state isn’t a party to a multinational treaty, can its media and communications system still be influenced by it?
=+and systems to come to an agreement on some policies?
=+1. Why is it possible for countries with widely varying political philosophies
=+5. Why are some countries less willing to use direct subsidies than others?
=+4. What keeps some countries from using certain types of policy tools?
=+3. Why does the selection of policy tools influence the success of the policy?
=+2. Can a policy mechanism pursued be fallacious?
=+1. What influences decisions about what types of policy mechanisms to employ?
=+regime approaches to media and communications policy issues?
=+5. What are the best ways for policy making to address conflicts in policy
=+4. Do policy frameworks help in the development of policy or merely in providing explanations for policy?
=+3. Why is framing so persuasive in establishing the needs for and approaches to policy making?
=+2. Why is it so difficult to gain policy action on some issues and developments?
=+1. How and why does policy develop outside the orderliness depicted in traditional policy process models?
=+5. What evidence is there of policy capture in media and communications in your country?
=+4. How do economic influences affect policy making?
=+3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of independent administrative agencies?
=+2. What governance levels are primarily involved in the regulation of internet services?
=+1. Why is it more difficult to create global than national policy?
=+6. To what extent do policy makers make independent decisions based on the rationales and narratives presented by stakeholders?
=+5. What values and social norms do you believe are most important for media and communications policy making? Why?
=+4. Are there conditions and circumstances under which media and communications policy should take precedence over other policy regimes? Why?
=+3. Why are policy process and stage models sometimes inadequate for explaining how policy is made?
=+2. How does politics aid and hinder the creation of good policy?
=+1. How might the disciplinary backgrounds of policy scholars affect the salience of issues, policies, processes and outcomes?
5. Discuss the benefits and limitations of online shopping to retailers and their customers.
4. “The digital divide is turning our country and the world into information haves and have nots”. Discuss the consequences of this digital divide. (14)In this question you will be marked on your
3. Many people are now working from home.a) Describe the benefits to the employee and the employer of tele-working. (8)b) Describe the disadvantages of tele-working. (8)
2. Describe two ways in which the Internet has helped the authors in writing this book. (6)
1. Describe three different ways in which a company might make use of the Internet to benefit its business. (6)Jan 2005 AQA ICT1
3. Imagine that you were in charge of the team who were implementing this new system. What would be your main actions to ensure that the system worked as intended?
2. Explain the main benefits of the “Choose and Book” system.
1. Find out more about the new system on http://www.chooseandbook.nhs.uk.
3. Identify drawbacks of online learning?
2. Explain why online learning was the best option for her.
1. List other ways that Jane could have acquired the knowledge that she needed.
3. What equipment was needed to make use of the Wi-Fi connection in the street?
2. What should the householders have done to prevent the illegal access?
1. Under which section of the Computer Misuse Act would the man have been arrested?
4. Explain why some people fear that the use of cards could erode civil liberties.
3. Explain how the use of identity cards could reduce illegal working and fraudulent claims for benefits.
2. What is now to be stored on the cards?
1. Describe the current progress of the implementation of identity cards in the UK.
4. Find out more about the WEEE directive. What effect is the directive having on the disposal of items in the UK?
3. Explain why so much ICT hardware is discarded by users.
2. Many charities offer a recycling service for mobile phones. Find out about such a scheme.
1. Investigate the harmful effects of three of the listed substances.
4. What types of processing are involved in this system?
3. Search the Internet to see where this technology has been implemented.
2. What are the benefits to the rail company of passengers buying train tickets in this way?
1. What are the benefits to the passenger of buying train tickets this way?
4. What kinds of information could the seat-booking system provide for the managers of the cinema?
3. Under what circumstances would a customer choose to make a booking:a. in personb. by telephonec. online?
2. A key requirement of a seat-booking system is that seats cannot be double booked. Explain why this is important and describe how the type of processing used will make sure that this requirement is
1. What types of processing are involved in the seat-booking system?Justify your answer.
4. A hospital is planning to provide all its doctors with handheld computers. These computers will be able to be used anywhere in the hospital to access patient information and order medicines.a)
3. Over half the world’s emails are believed to be spam.This is unrequested advertising sent to collections of email addresses offering to sell you anything from medication to a university degree.
2. Most employers now use computer systems to calculate their employees’ wages and pay them straight into the employees’ bank accounts. Describe four capabilities of ICT which makes electronic
1. When Mrs Brown received her gas bill she found that it was for £10,000, which she knew was not correct. When she telephoned the gas company to complain, the explanation she received was that
3. What problems could arise from having a booking system that is dependent upon ICT systems?
2. Refer to the list of capabilities given at the start of the chapter.Explain which apply to the airline booking system.
1. What is the baggage code used for?
3. Describe how each of the capabilities in this list relate to the gas billing system:a. Fast repetitive processingb. Vast storage capacityc. Search and combine data.
2. How could bills be produced if there were no ICT system?
1. What information, apart from the most recent meter reading, is needed to produce a customer’s bill?
2. Describe the data that needs to be brought together to produce the letters concerning overdue items.
1. What is a mail-merge program?
3. Describe the advantages to Ken of the accessibility to information and services that ICT provides.
2. List the information that Ken has acquired and the services that he has used via ICT during the morning.
1. As an alternative to confirming his booking from his home computer, Ken could have used an airport check-in kiosk. Find out more about these kiosks from an airline’s website, such as

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